November 15, 2007
YESSSSSSSS.
Say this for Alex Rodriguez: In a take-no-prisoners winter in which he dared walk away from the New York Yankees and $81 million, in which he sought to obsolete the game's previous record salary (his own), into which his swashbuckling agent entered with a knife between his teeth, and into which he went armed with one of the great offensive seasons in baseball history, he lasted 18 days.That's almost three weeks. A lesser man might not have gotten to Veterans Day.
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Owned.
Posted by: Ari at November 15, 2007 01:36 PMI don't even want to go there. I'm just so happy he's coming back. Whatever happened, let's forget about it. (Totally like a battered wife here).
Posted by: Karol at November 15, 2007 01:44 PM10 years @ $275 million? Gosh, those numbers sound familiar...
Posted by: Shawn at November 15, 2007 01:45 PMAll the negative stuff that surrounded A-Rod during the last month just reeks of tone deaf Scott Boras.
Posted by: 1,379 at November 15, 2007 02:14 PMARod got cold feet. Boras makes very few mistakes; this was a mistake.
Posted by: Charles at November 15, 2007 02:44 PMI was at work getting a coffee at our Cafe Shoppe and while waiting, I was perusing today's (upstate) issue of the NY Post. I was reading the back pages (I work in downtown Albany..I am truly surprised that my PC company actually allows us to sell a conservative paper like the Post). Anyways, a customer comes up and starts reading over my shoulder. Seeing as how she's an attractive female (albeit wearing "Hillary" and "Go Green" pins on her lapels), I let her. She scoffs at the headlines about A-Rod crawling back to the Yankees and revels in the irony (as I do)...come to find out that she's a Red Sox fan, and she's SO GLAD that the Sawx didn't try to get him.
This is the one and only time that I agree with a liberal...A-Rod is the real reason for the Heimlich maneuver. The man chokes like a long-haired cat on hair balls in the play-offs.
Reggie Jackson he ain't.
That's the SAME Tim Brown who wrote at the LA Times for several years.
He is the most annoying sportswriter in history.
He used to be the Lakers beat writer for the Times for a number of years.
Other than the fact that Brown always tries to assign excessive significance to every ballgame,
the most annoying aspect about him is his Henry James/Theodore Dreiser style of writing.
The guy must have fallen in love with the comma during his formative teenage years, because he refuses to punctuate by using periods.
Seriously, re-read that major paragraph of his and count the commas---that's how ALL of his paragraphs read.
Wow, you're right. That's a lot of commas.
Posted by: Karol at November 16, 2007 02:44 AM
